BARRO GROUP
Support Local
With economic instability and supply chain constraints delivering constant pressure, there has never been a better time to support local. Given Victoria has the luxury of being home to many world-class industry leaders, the choice of suppliers for members of the CMPA has been made even simpler. Two such leaders, are FUCHS Lubricants and BARRO GROUP Mountain View Quarries. As family-owned companies grown from simple beginnings, they share many similarities, but the most important is, they both run local state-of-the-art facilities that service the Victorian Construction and Earth Resources Industries.
Starting as Barro's Paving Co in 1946, the company has diversified over the years, and now as BARRO GROUP, is an Australian industry leader in all aspects of concrete production, hard-rock quarries and sand pits to name a few. BARRO GROUP opened their first quarry, Mountain View Quarries, in the You Yang's in 1962 followed by the purchase of the Montrose Quarrry in 1965. With a blank palette and years of experience to draw on, BARRO GROUP focused heavily on the scope and design of the plant. The emphasis was on increasing tonnage output through automation and ease of maintenance while ensuring high levels of safety across the plant.
Fast forward to today, Mountain View Quarries, which is made up of over 10 world class sites that specialise in a wide range of aggregates, crushed rock, coarse and fine sands and gravels. These sites provide an invaluable supply of local materials to the Victorian construction industry without the unreliability and additional costs of interstate and international supply chains. This local supply also significantly lowers the CO2 emissions associated with long distance transportation.
Given their commitment to local industry, it makes perfect sense that BARRO GROUP have partnered with FUCHS Lubricants as their lubricants supplier. With their own state-of-the-art plant located in Sunshine Victoria, FUCHS, who is the only lubricants manufacturer to still produce lubricants, coolants, greases and additives in Australia, provides world class products that are expertly designed to protect the machinery that keeps Mountain View Quarries in operation.
With a steady flow of crushed rock travelling along BARRO GROUP conveyor belts for up running for up to 23hrs a day in peak periods at some sites, keeping downtime to an absolute minimum is critical which is why they use FUCHS RENOLIT XTB-2 grease. Ideal for civil and construction equipment that bear heavy loads at low speeds, RENOLIT XTB-2 is used in the auto-greasing units to protect the bearings of the conveyor belts against contaminants like dirt and debris as well as extends service intervals, even in the most extreme of conditions. Conveniently stored in FUCHS grease hoppers located on site, there is always a steady of RENOLIT XTB-2 available to keep BARRO GROUP quarries in good working order.
But conveyor belts are not the only mega machines that FUCHS lubricants are protecting across the Mountain View Quarry sites. BARRO GROUP also uses a range of FUCH TITAN products to maintain their fleet of CAT 992 loaders, including TITAN TRUCK PLUS SAE 15W-40, TITAN UTTO TO-4 SAE 30, TITAN UTTO TO-4 SAE 50 and TITAN UTTO TO-4 SAW 10W. Without these massive machines to transport the extracted rock from the pit, the quarry sites would come to a stand-still which is why BARRO GROUP relies on the premium lubricants manufactured by FUCHS to meet the demanding requirements of this mega fleet.
Importantly, FUCHS Lubricants production subsidiaries are CO₂-neutral ("gate-to-gate") with a plan to offer CO₂-neutral products ("cradle to gate") by 2025 through the use of renewable energy across all its manufacturing plants. This helps to ensure that Victorian Construction and Earth Resources Industries and members like BARRO GROUP are operating in a more sustainable way.
For more information on how FUCHS Lubricants can not only protect but also improve the efficiency of your equipment, contact Louis Vardakis on louis.vardakis@fuchs.com or at 0418 352 953.
